Post Doc Research Associate
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska
I am Seema Sahay, currently working as a Post Doc Research Associate in the Biochemistry Department and Center for Plant Science Innovation, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I was born and grown up in India and I love doing science. My long-term research goal is to improve crop-resilience to abiotic stresses through manipulation the photosynthesis efficiency in plants. One of my research interests is to understand mechanisms of plant responses to various abiotic stresses, in particular drought and nutrition stress. In my research I use physiological and genomic approaches with particular focus on non-photochemical quenching and related changes at molecular, and biochemical levels up to observations of whole plant system in laboratory and field conditions. In addition, I also study the nitric oxide-abscisic acid signaling in regulating the oxidative stress of drought-compromised crops at physiology and gene level.
I obtained my M.Sc. in Plant Science with major in cytogenetics. In 2009, I awarded the Rajeev Gandhi National Ph.D. fellowship from the University Grants Commission to pursue the research on the plant physiology at the A.M University, India. After my Ph.D., I was awarded the UGC-Post Doc fellowship (formerly known as Women’s Scientist Award) in 2016. In the years 2018-2019, I worked as a Visiting Post Doc fellow at the Biology Department in the National Institute of Nuclear Investigations, Mexico. In 2021, I was awarded ASPB-travel Award and the travel award from the Collective Research Organization of Plant Scientists, which is funded by Center for Plant Science Innovation at the UNL. I also won the SNI-Candidate Award (2019) from the CONACyT-Mexican Scientific Community and the International Travel Scheme (ITS) Award (2017) from the Department of Science and Technology, India. I have delivered several talks in prestigious conference like SPIN2017, Italy; and XXVII-SUTIN and Global Water Crisis, Mexico. I am author of 25 publications.